DOC Affirms Duties on Imported PLT Tires
Commerce’s preliminary investigation determined that exporters have dumped passenger tires in the U.S. from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
What Armes Really Said About Tariff Threat
During Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.’s earning call with investment analysts on Aug. 7, Cooper chairman and CEO Roy Armes briefly addressed the USW petition for added tariffs on China-made consumer tires imported into the U.S. Cooper is a major importer of those specific tires, and was dinged during the three-year added tariff imposed by
PRC Government Strongly Opposes New Tire Tariff
China’s government expressed “strong opposition” to the U.S. Commerce Department’s latest decision to consider further punitive additional duties on China-produced consumer tires exported to the U.S. On July 18, the People’s Republic of China Ministry of Commerce said in an online statement that the U.S. investigation was undertaken “despite serious flaws in the application for